Nicholas Sibson

UNITED KINGDOM

SUMMARY

Program (MSP) Project (PMP & Prince II) Manager, and Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) working in software development, and process improvement using data driven approaches to problem solving. A qualified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, with experience in banking, petrochemicals, publishing, logistics, advertising, telecommunications, gaming and games development and car manufacturing.Consultant for agile or waterfall projects, project & program management (even project recovery). Interested in opportunities to help introduce and mature Agile (Scrum) methods and practices into organisations, whilst helping them to fully realise the potential return on investment of these best practices.

EXPERIENCE

Clearswift

2014 November - Present

Project Manager

Theale,Berkshire ,UNITED KINGDOM

Project Manager and Agile Coach

Nicholas Sibson Ltd

2012 April - Present

Program & Project Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach

Reading ,UNITED KINGDOM

Contract Program/Project Manager using Agile & Scrum methods and practices for fast and successful software development and deployment.

Electronic Arts

2012 October - 2013 February

Program Manager, Origin Mobile and Social

London ,UNITED KINGDOM

Program Manager for the Origin Mobile and Social development within EA Digital Platform, in London. Working with 18 developers and testers and a Test Manager, was able to deliver the Minimum Viable Product into the production environment, drove the enhancement to the base product and re-organised the teams to streamline the approach. Also responsible for the product roadmap planning.
For strategic reasons EA has outsourced the future development and maintenance of Origin M&S, resulting in off-shoring of the work. I worked on the successful handover to the new team.

Ford Motor Company

2002 October - 2007 February

Project Manager

Essex ,UNITED KINGDOM

Project Manager Warranty 04/05 to 02/07
Developed the use of bar-codes for the European warranty parts returns systems “PEARS”
Moved all European ‘direct input’ dealers onto a common version of the warranty claims management software provided by Ford Europe (GWE).
Project Manager CRM 10/02 to 03/05
Managed the external team responsible for the operation and development of Ford’s online CRM database eCupid. During this time I improved system reliability whilst reducing team size, introduced a load balanced solution and improved development productivity.

Nokia

2010 November - 2011 June

Development Manager

Hampshire ,UNITED KINGDOM

Managed 6 project managers, delivering 9 projects, using dispersed teams in UK, India and various locations in Finland. All projects delivered within months and 6 were completed by mid year. All teams successfully migrated to Scrum Framework processes I helped to develop.

General Motors

2007 March - 2010 June

Business Planning Manager

Berkshire ,UNITED KINGDOM

Responsible for Europe-wide planning activities and KPI’s, Achieved the annual IT systems reduction targets from 2007 to 2009. Responsible for organising key European IT reviews, including a European performance review held in Moscow for the global IT directors
European Project Lead for the global “Request to Pay” project from Aug 08
Centre of Expertise and European lead for the “Information Lifecycle Management” (ILM - Compliance and E-Discovery process) from 2007 to 2010. I reduced the annual ILM program duration from 12 to 6 months across Europe, (including 55,000 staff)

Aditi Technologies

2013 June - 2014 October

Senior Program Manager

London ,UNITED KINGDOM

Project Manager, Agile Coach and Scrum Master
From Dec 13 to Feb 14: Working in BI/CRM for UK betting and gaming company. Ran the Stabilisation project phase for their Oracle based data warehouse. Validation and reconciliation of end to end processes from ETL to business presentation, and performance improvements to meet business targets. Working with onshore/off-shore team. Good agile testing practices leading to fast delivery, with high quality.
From Jun to Oct 13: Changed a Proof of Concept phase into an agile (scrum) delivery project for a company that was redeveloping its core technologies for the education market in the UK and beyond.
Working with an off-shore team, and the in-house client experts.
Also involved in pre-sales and projects in the retail, travel and telecoms sectors.

Nicholas Sibson Ltd

2012 April - 2012 May

Project Manager / SCRUM Master

Oxford ,UNITED KINGDOM

Nokia

2011 April - 2012 April

Project Manager - Net Promoter Score

Farnborough ,UNITED KINGDOM

Put back on track the business critical Net Promoter Score development project, including improvements to the infrastructure design, which provides data capture, processing & Qlikview reporting functionality. I managed the diverse and virtual team development team located in Finland, UK and India, and developed new processes based on the Scrum Framework